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- 4,432
- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
As part of my ongoing care I have 6 monthly blood tests and reviews with the Diabetes Nurse. Three month interim test without review if I am trying something new/different.
One thing, though. There is the assumption that because I am T2 the main reason for the test is HbA1c and so they say that it doesn't need to be a fasting test. Obviously because HbA1c measures the long term average.
However they also measure cholesterol and draw conclusions.
Thanks to various posters for reminding me that if you want an accurate cholesterol reading then you should have a fasting test. So I am passing that reminder on.
On a related point, for the first time ever I had to arm wrestle the phlebotomist (very politely) to get a cholesterol test because they were "only once per year". Has something changed recently? I have always had the cholesterol test included in my blood tests before.
I am assuming this was some kind of internal lack of communication because the 3 monthly test was because I had poor results just before Christmas for cholesterol and HbA1c, and they were pushing me to consider statins.
One thing, though. There is the assumption that because I am T2 the main reason for the test is HbA1c and so they say that it doesn't need to be a fasting test. Obviously because HbA1c measures the long term average.
However they also measure cholesterol and draw conclusions.
Thanks to various posters for reminding me that if you want an accurate cholesterol reading then you should have a fasting test. So I am passing that reminder on.
On a related point, for the first time ever I had to arm wrestle the phlebotomist (very politely) to get a cholesterol test because they were "only once per year". Has something changed recently? I have always had the cholesterol test included in my blood tests before.
I am assuming this was some kind of internal lack of communication because the 3 monthly test was because I had poor results just before Christmas for cholesterol and HbA1c, and they were pushing me to consider statins.